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This new reader edited by Mark K. Sandford presents classic and contemporary articles on key issues dealing with the nature of science, evolution and heredity, primate behavior, human evolution, and modern human variation.

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PREFACE INTRODUCTION Section I: The Nature of Science. 1. Science: Truth Without Certainty (2008), Eugenie Scott. 2. Physical Anthropology: It's Scope and Aims: Its History and Present Status in America (1918), Ales Hrdlicka. 3. The New Physical Anthropology (1951), Sherwood Washburn SECTION II: Evolution and Heredity. 4. Patterns (2005), Niles Eldredge. 5. The Fossils Say Yes (2005), Donald R. Prothero. 6. The Origins of Form: Ancient Genes, Recycled and RePurposed, Control of Embryonic Development in Organisms of Striking Diversity (2005), Sean Carroll. 7. Evolution In Action: Finches, Monkeyflowers, Sockeye Salmon, And Bacteria Are Changing Before Our Eyes (Darwinism Today) (2005), Jonathan Weiner. 8. A Terrible Scrooge (2007), Olivia Judson. 9. Reading the Book of Jim (2007), Sharon Begley. SECTION III: The Primates. 10. The Social Life of Baboons (1961), Sherwood L. Washburn and Irven DeVore. 11. Leading Ladies (1992), Jeanne Altman. 12. Dance of the Sexes (2005), Sharon T. Pochron and Patricia C. Wright. 13. Learning from the Chimpanzees: A Message Humans Can Understand (1998), Jane Goodall. 14. Why are Some Animals So Smart? (2006), Carel van Schaik. SECTION IV: Human Evolution. 15. Antiquity of Human Walking (1967), John Napier. 16. Lucy's Baby (2006), Kate Wong. 17. New Fossils Challenge Line of Descent in Human Family Tree (2007), Ann Gibbons. 18. The Dawn of Stone Age Genomics (2006), Elizabeth Pennisi. 19. Beyond Stones and Bones (2007), Sharon Begley with Mary Carmichael. SECTION V: Modern Human Variation. 20. Lactose and Lactase (1972), Norman Kretchmer. 21. How Africa Learned to Love the Cow (2006), Ericka Check. 22. Skin Deep (2003), Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin. 23. Ancient DNA Reveals Neanderthals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions (2006), Elizabeth Culotta.

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